Posts by spr97ajm

Sky plans to ditch up to 500 staff in the Technology Group

Service Quality

Service quality was already low and has now gone out of the window. I ditched Sky Glass 18 months ago as it was awful, having been a Sky TV customer for about 15 years. I now only have the mobile service because it's cheap. I had to call them to sort a problem last week and it was almost impossible to get their impenetrable AI chat bot to put me through to a human. As soon as I can find a comparable mobile deal elsewhere (we have several SIMs in our family and I can share the pot of data among them) I'll be off.

Google Nest server outage leaves US, European smart homes acting dumb

Since Google took over, the Nest iOS app seems to get worse with every update. The video playback freezes and I have to restart the app. The current build has a corrupted U/I element (The button that changes the view from a timeline to a list of events). I refuse to move to a Google login because I will lose access to the Apple TV app, which I actually find quite useful.

Microsoft yanks the document-destroying Windows 10 October 2018 Update

Re: Why even touch user folders?

The first ever Windows phone I owned (the Orange SPV) had a similar sync philosophy. The first time I connected it to my PC, it deleted all my contacts.

I had to admit, both devices were then in sync though.

Britain mulls 'complete shutdown' of 4G net for emergency services

Re: Still waiting

Joe Public gets kicked off the network to leave capacity for the emergency services.

Lester Haines: RIP

Bad news. My thoughts are with his family, friends and colleagues.

Coding with dad on the Dragon 32

Loved my Dragon.

Pretty much the same story here. My Dad bought me one when they came out and I was hooked. Managed to convince my mum I was hacking into a local bank via the TV aerial. She nearly had a heart attack. Spent hours typing in code from 'Input' magazine. Loading games from cassette was definitely a dark art. Spent dozens of hours fiddling with volume, bass and treble controls, plugging and unplugging the cable, cleaning tape heads, turning off surrounding electrical equipment. "I/O ERROR". I sold it just last year. The bloke came back to me and said "You do know there was a break in the cassette tape lead?"

Oh how we laughed.

How Apple's Lion won't let you trash documents

Eh?

I can't reproduce this behaviour. Can you post the exact steps that you are taking?

Hotmail imposes tracking cookies for logout

Hacked?

I saw this on my Hotmail account the other day. The typo made me think that my account had been hacked in some way. On one hand I'm glad it hasn't. On the other, it's the final nail in the coffin of Hotmail for me.